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Ali
Ali

Reputation: 267049

How to get Netbeans to deploy Java web app to Tomcat's Root (e.g /) instead of /MyProject?

Netbeans always deploys the .war of my application to /MyProject on Tomcat. This means that I view them on http://localhost:8084/MyProject , and all links such as /something don't work as they point to http://localhost:8084/something rather than http://localhost:8084/MyProject/something. How can I get Netbeans to instead deploy the application to the root of Tomcat?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2547

Answers (4)

Alpha2k
Alpha2k

Reputation: 2241

I know this might be 4 years late, but I found an easier solution.

Go to META-INF/context.xml in your netbeans project and you should find something like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path="/myProject"/>

Change the Context path to:

<Context path="/"/>

This will deploy your project as root.

Upvotes: 0

Boris the Spider
Boris the Spider

Reputation: 61128

By default, when deploying an application, tomcat deploys ApplicationName.war as /ApplicationName.

Another thing to note is that an application called ROOT is served as the root (i.e. /).

Therefore the solution is fairly simple - deploy your warfile as ROOT.war and tomcat will automatically serve it as /·

Upvotes: 2

blackpanther
blackpanther

Reputation: 11486

That should be in your context.xml. The details of the configuration are here http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html. Moreover, the context.xml is accessible within the /META-INF/context.xml path. I don't think that NetBeans will do that for you. We have to specify that ourselves, just like in GlassFish where I had to do the same thing in a glassfish-web.xml file.

Upvotes: 3

PhilDin
PhilDin

Reputation: 2842

You can specify a context root of "/" but I don't believe this can be done in a platform independent way. See this question for more details:

How do you specify the root context in your <web-app> tags in web.xml?

Upvotes: 1

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